The 2nd Daily Telegraph Trophy was a motor race, run to Formula One rules, held on 3 September 1955 at Aintree Circuit, Merseyside. The race was run over 17 laps, and was won by British driver Roy Salvadori in a Maserati 250F. Salvadori also set fastest lap, and Stirling Moss was on pole position in a 250F but retired with engine problems. Bob Gerard was second in a Cooper T23-Bristol and Horace Gould third in another 250F.
This was the first race for the BRM P25. It only managed a few laps in practice before oil leaking onto the tyres caused driver Peter Collins to spin off and damage the car.
Results
Pos. No. Driver Entrant Car Time/Retired Grid 1 5 Roy Salvadori Gilby Engineering Maserati 250F 36:33.0, 83.72mph 2 2 10 Bob Gerard F.R. Gerard Cooper T23-Bristol +15.2s 4 3 4 Horace Gould Gould's Garage (Bristol) Maserati 250F +25.6s 3 4 17 Tony Brooks Equipe Endeavour Connaught Type A-Lea Francis +1:57.4 7 5 18 John Young J.A. Young Connaught Type A-Lea Francis +2:14.6 12 6 2 Reg Parnell Connaught Engineering Connaught Type B-Alta +1 lap 5 7 19 Bill Holt E.W. Holt Connaught Type A-Lea Francis +1 lap 10 8 11 Bruce Halford Equipe Devone Cooper T23-Bristol +1 lap 9 9 14 Alastair Birrell A.W. Birrell Cooper T20-Bristol +1 lap 14 10 12 Tom Kyffin Equipe Devone Cooper T23-Bristol 19 Ret 7 Stirling Moss Stirling Moss Ltd. Maserati 250F 13 laps, engine 1 Ret 21 Horace Richards H.A. Richards H.A.R.-Riley 9 laps 17 Ret 6 Louis Rosier Ecurie Rosier Maserati 250F 8 laps, clutch 6 Ret 8 Paul Emery Emeryson Cars Emeryson Mk.1-Alta 7 laps, oil pressure 15 Ret 20 Dick Gibson R. Gibson Connaught Type A-Lea Francis 3 laps, oil pressure 18 Ret 1 Jack Fairman Connaught Engineering Connaught Type B-Alta 2 laps, crash 8 Ret 15 Jimmy Somervail Border Reivers Cooper T20-Bristol 0 laps, crash 13 DNS 9 Peter Collins Owen Racing Organisation BRM P25 Crashed in practice 16 DNA 3 Michael Young Roebuck Engineering Connaught Type A-Alta - DNA 16 Charles Boulton Ecurie Ane Connaught Type A-Lea Francis -
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